grace note - An extra note for embellishment, not necessary for the harmony or melody. absolute music, abstract music, pure music - Absolute music (abstract music, pure music) is music for its own sakeâconcerned only with structure, melody, harmony, and rhythm.
Atrophic Pancreas. Atrophic pancreas is the wasting away of the pancreas usually from chronic pancreatitis or CP. CP is further defined as an inflammatory disease that is advanced and described by permanent morphologic changes and gradual formation of excessive fibrous tissue replacement of the gland.
atrophic gastritis. A type of chronic gastritis, which is characterised by inflammatory destruction of specialised parietal and chief cell zones, leading to atrophy, mucus neck cell metaplasia, intestinal metaplasia and pancreatic acinar metaplasia, which may lead to the development of type-1 ECL-cell tumours (gastric carcinoids).